Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America..


The Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G.K. Chesterton (ed. 1986)

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by...

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by...

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by...

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by...